art-catalogue

ANDREA ROBIN ANDRZEJ KORZEC BARBARA BRYN KLARE CLARE PALMER CLOTILDE OROZCO LOPEZ CLYDE RICHARD BRITTAIN DAVID IVES DEVON GIFFORD ELIZABETH BARNES HELENA WADSLEY JENNIFER CHERNECKI KITTY BLANDY KATHERINE DUCLOS KOSAR MOVAHEDI LACEY JANE WILBURN LAURA KRICK LAURA ROSENGREN LINDA SUFFIDY MARISSA SCHIESSER MEGS GATUS MENGYA ZHAO NICHOLAS DEMERS SARA FARIDAMIN SARA KOUEDI SARA KORZEC SHANNON PAWLIW SHIRLEY WIEBE STEPHANIE KEWISTEP TREVOR SCHMIDT ZACH WARN

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE WORKING GEAR GRAND RE-OPENING AND FUNDRAISER SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

EXHIBITION PREVIEW SEPTEMBER 10, NOON - 5 PM

ANDREA ROBIN GINKGO COLOUR STUDY 2022 16 x 20” Media: pencil, watercolour, acrylic on cradled panel https://www.andrearobinstudio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/andrearobinstudio/ ARTIST BIO Canadian-based visual artist Andrea Robin, BFA makes works comprised of abstracted colour in pencil, acrylic, and watercolour pigment. Sensitive observation of colour and line evokes empathy and communion with light, person, and plant.

PROJECT STATEMENT Part colour study, part botanical study, inspired by Matisse, this work presents a joyful burst of colour comparable to that of a Ginkgo tree in PNW’s early autumn.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $125

ANDRZEJ KORZEC LISTENING TO A CHILD 2003 15.75 x 12” (+ frame) Media: oil on cardboard https://korzec.art.pl/en/ https://www.instagram.com/korzec.art/ ARTIST BIO Andrzej Korzec (born in Poland, 1959) is an artist working mainly in oil paint medium. He studied painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland (diploma in 1989). His artworks have been shown in numerous individual and group exhibitions across Europe and in the USA. He has been honored in a lot of art contests; he received a Decoration of Honor “Meritorious for Polish Culture”, Medal for “Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis” and The City of Rzeszow Award in the field of culture and art for his artistic achievements. From 1996-2002 he served as the President of Association of Polish Artists and Designers in Rzeszow. He inaugurated the cycle of exhibitions “By Quill and Brush around Rzeszow” and the International Art Residency of Painting and Sculpture, known as “Rakszawa” and “Orzechowka”. In 2006 he participated in the project “The Beauty of Nature” in Les Arcys, Volgre (France). He was a stipend-holder of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts (1996/97) and in 2002 was invited for an art residency in Klagenfurt (Austria); each year he participates in plein air painting art residencies across Europe. He teaches drawing and painting in the Art High School in Rzeszow, PL.

PROJECT STATEMENT “Listening to a child “ is an artwork from the figurative series of Andrzej Korzec. It presents a scene, where a lot of attention is given to a child’s story, without diminishing the child due to their age. Artwork is painted in the characteristic to the artist’s way, with thick paint and expressive brush strokes. It is a figurative painting but carries a lot of abstract elements. Color scheme is rather warm.

LIVE AUCTION OPENING BID = $290

BARBARA BRYN KLARE HARD TOUCH/SOFT TOUCH BLUE/RED 2021 8.5 x 11” (16 x 20” framed) Media: Rescued textiles, photograph,

PROJECT STATEMENT Rescued textiles, objects, drawings, text, and natural and digital materials come together in a practice exploring fragility, repair, sustainability, and powerlessness. Voice and artistic solace are given to the silenced and overlooked in society: unknown poets, deceased mothers, sticks, old clothes. I champion the humble and the frayed, freeing the discarded remnants of a throw-away world. The ragged strength of worn fabrics forms the basis for large-scale installations, collage, drawings, objects, and social practice.

and thread on vintage book page https://barbarabrynklare.com/ https://www.instagram.com/barbarabrynklare/ ARTIST BIO Barbara Bryn Klare is an artist and curator based in the San Francisco area and southeastern Ohio. She received a BA in geology and studio art/art history from Oberlin College and an MA Fine Art Merit from University for the Creative Arts UK. Her artwork has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Cleveland Botanical Garden and Hugomento gallery in San Francisco, and group shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, DZINE Gallery, Touchstone Gallery, Die Kunstschaffenden, and Ruskin Gallery. In fall 2019, she was the first Artist-in-Residence at Dairy Barn Arts Center, exploring textile waste and climate change. Ms Klare is a founding member of Textile Arts Los Angeles and the International Collage Guild.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $100

BARBARA BRYN KLARE HARD TOUCH/SOFT TOUCH RED/GREEN 2021 8.5 x 11” (16 x 20” framed) Media: Rescued textiles, photograph,

and thread on vintage book page https://barbarabrynklare.com/ https://www.instagram.com/barbarabrynklare/ ARTIST BIO Barbara Bryn Klare is an artist and curator based in the San Francisco area and southeastern Ohio. She received a BA in geology and studio art/art history from Oberlin College and an MA Fine Art Merit from University for the Creative Arts UK. Her artwork has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Cleveland Botanical Garden and hugomento gallery in San Francisco, and group shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, DZINE Gallery, Touchstone Gallery, Die Kunstschaffenden, and Ruskin Gallery. In fall 2019, she was the first Artist- in-Residence at Dairy Barn Arts Center, exploring textile waste and climate change. Ms Klare is a founding member of Textile Arts Los Angeles and the International Collage Guild.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $100

BARBARA BRYN KLARE HARD TOUCH/SOFT TOUCH GRAY/ORANGE 2021 8.5x11” (16 x 20” framed) Media: Rescued textiles, photograph, and thread on vintage book page https://barbarabrynklare.com/ https://www.instagram.com/barbarabrynklare/ ARTIST BIO Barbara Bryn Klare is an artist and curator based in the San Francisco area and southeastern Ohio. She received a BA in geology and studio art/art history from Oberlin College and an MA Fine Art Merit from University for the Creative Arts UK. Her artwork has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Cleveland Botanical Garden and hugomento gallery in San Francisco, and group shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, DZINE Gallery, Touchstone Gallery, Die Kunstschaffenden, and Ruskin Gallery. In fall 2019, she was the first Artist- in-Residence at Dairy Barn Arts Center, exploring textile waste and climate change. Ms Klare is a founding member of Textile Arts Los Angeles and the International Collage Guild.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $100

CLARE PALMER GENTLE REGENERATION 2021 11 x 14” Media: Framed photo on Hahnemühle paper, single edition https://www.instagram.com/clare_palmer_arts/ ARTIST BIO Clare Palmer is an emerging visual artist based in Vancouver, on unceded and traditional Coast Salish Territories. Clare holds Visual Arts and Painting Certificates from Emily Carr University. Since 2019 she has exhibited in various group shows in the Lower Mainland and online. Clare mainly works in mixed media, watercolour, and street photography. Inspired by dreams and the natural world, she tries to observe, interpret and share her impressions through visual art. For Clare, making art is a healing process. Her goal is to invite the viewer to enter the image, thereby encouraging reflection and understanding.

PROJECT STATEMENT This photo is part of a series called “Learning from Trees”, shot on Cormorant Island in September 2021. I took a series of photos in different areas of the island to document the ravages on the land caused by clearcuts and the creation of now defunct salmon canneries. Some areas are healing, but others will never return to their pre- contact state. This particular photo shows new growth, and a healthier landscape. The photo is a single print on Hahnemühle paper, framed with a black Bowen frame.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $75

CLOTILDE OROZCO LOPEZ MOTHERHOOD 2022 38 x 46” Media: Mixed media (acrylic, dry pigments, ink, paper) on cotton canvas https://clotiorozco.wixsite.com/website https://www.instagram.com/barce__lina/ ARTIST BIO Clotilde Orozco is an architect, designer and

PROJECT STATEMENT This colorful and vibrant painting is part of a series of experiments with acrylic, dry pigments and tracing paper. Layering and texturing are always the core of my process, infusing my work naturally with my Spanish roots and adding a very personal and profound component to the results, which often stir the viewers, whether the painting is understood as a landscape or a women embracing a child, like it is in this case. This piece has a personal meaning for me because of what represents and my powerful journey through motherhood.

multidisciplinary artist from Madrid, based in Vancouver. Her natural curiosity and experimental approach arises in many forms of work -painting, design, installations, sculpture, ceramic, photography-, producing a wide variety of unique results that articulate her interests and showcase her obsessions and cultural heritage.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $600

CLOTILDE OROZCO LOPEZ JELLYFISH 2021 32 x 38” Media: MIxed media (acrylic, dry pigments) on cotton canvas https://clotiorozco.wixsite.com/website https://www.instagram.com/barce__lina/ ARTIST BIO Clotilde Orozco is an architect, designer and

PROJECT STATEMENT This colorful and vibrant painting is part of a series of experiments with acrylic and dry pigments. Layering and texturing are always the core of my process, infusing my work naturally with my Spanish roots and adding a very personal and profound component to the results, which often stir the viewers, whether the painting is understood as a landscape or a women embracing a child.

multidisciplinary artist from Madrid, based in Vancouver. Her natural curiosity and experimental approach arises in many forms of work - painting, design, installations, sculpture, ceramic, photography - producing a wide variety of unique results that articulate her interests and showcase her obsessions and cultural heritage.

LIVE AUCTION OPENING BID = $600

CLYDE RICHARD BRITTAIN HYBRID IV 2021 23 x 32cm (+ frame) Media: Reduction Woodcut (framed) https://clyderichardbrittain.com/ https://www.instagram.com/papirklipp/ ARTIST BIO

PROJECT STATEMENT Hybrid IV is a three-colour reduction woodcut printed on washi paper. It depicts an imaginary plant/mammal hybrid of a pumpkin possessing a human heart and speaks my interest in the ways in which the natural world is interconnected, sometimes in obscure or surprising ways.

I am an artist working and living in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations. I was born in the Northern part of what is currently called British Columbia and spent my teenage years on Vancouver Island. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a focus on print media, although I am also interested in collage, illustration, sculpture and sound. A primary focus of my practice is exploring the complex and often fraught relationship we, as a species, have with the Earth. I find inspiration in the shapes, textures and patterns that exist within nature. Drawing on these, I seek to imagine new narratives in which humans embrace our place as part of the natural world, just as the natural world is an integral part of ourselves. I utilise surreal and fantastical imagery to explore issues we must address collectively if we hope to survive. Organic forms merge, mutate, transform and evolve in my work, as I explore what it is to be human in the Anthropocene and what the world might look like if we were at peace with our environment.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $50

DAVID IVES MINERAL 4.1 2022 24 x 22” Media: cedar, leather, acrylic, MDF https://www.madetoflydesign.com/ https://www.instagram.com/madetoflydesign/ ARTIST BIO David Ives (he/him) lives and works on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh territories. His artwork seeks to showcase the natural beauty of reclaimed materials. He enjoys combining and contrasting these materials to create a visual feast for the eyes. All reclaimed materials are sourced locally and art is produced through a mix of laser cutting and hand crafting. David shares a space with several other companies who value sustainability and social justice and regularly collaborate in different ways. His long term vision is to cultivate a space where people from the DTES can come; work with their hands, create, and reflect on their own circumstances & strengths.

PROJECT STATEMENT This is the 4th design in my MINERALOGY collection. Inspired by Quartz mineral structures and consisting of a range of reclaimed materials including; weathered cedar, painted and distressed cedar, worn leather and acrylic. Mounted on reclaimed MDF which has been painted to appear like slate.

LIVE AUCTION OPENING BID = $450

DAVID IVES MINERAL 1.2 2022 28 x 28” Media: cedar, elk hide, leather, acrylic, MDF https://www.madetoflydesign.com/ https://www.instagram.com/madetoflydesign/ ARTIST BIO David Ives (he/him) lives and works on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh territories. His artwork seeks to showcase the natural beauty of reclaimed materials. He enjoys combining and contrasting these materials to create a visual feast for the eyes. All reclaimed materials are sourced locally and art is produced through a mix of laser cutting and hand crafting. David shares a space with several other companies who value sustainability and social justice and regularly collaborate in different ways. His long term vision is to cultivate a space where people from the DTES can come; work with their hands, create, and reflect on their own circumstances & strengths.

PROJECT STATEMENT This is the 1st design in my MINERALOGY collection. Inspired by Diamond structures within the confines of a circle. It consists of a range of reclaimed materials including; weathered cedar, painted and distressed cedar, elk hide, worn leather and acrylic. The colour combinations of pink, beige, gold and white were inspired by shells found on a recent trip to Savary Island.

LIVE AUCTION OPENING BID = $900

DEVON GIFFORD UNTITLED - DARK DAYS 2020 20 x 16” framed Media: watercolour (stonehenge cold press 140 and beam paint) https://www.instagram.com/doodlepuffy/

PROJECT STATEMENT This work began as a response to the vast unknown at the beginning of covid, and finding myself sitting alone in random settings for long periods of time, staring at the clouds. Cumulus clouds have been my main focus – they’re a cheery bunch and pretty entertaining to watch. Cirrus and Stratus have also made some appearances. Much of the work was done at parks and beaches, while clouds sneaked around and over me. Each layer of grey tone contains depth, warmth, and light; a metaphor of what I was seeing and feeling around me, in the world, everyday. The sadness, and all of the little things that make a difference – that bring depth, warmth, and light. Clouds became my comfort, a warm hug for my mind. I’ve continued this work and practice throughout the pandemic, shifting indoors and into creating larger pieces, referenced from my MANY cloud photos and those sent from friends and family.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $200

ELIZABETH BARNES “WITH EVERY BREATH...” 2022 20 x 20” Media: acrylic on canvas https://www.elizabethbarnes.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/endless_murmuring ARTIST BIO My fine arts education began with an attitude. The attitude came from my teachers, a small group of New York artists who had come of age in the 50s and 60s. The attitude was rooted in jazz. Painting was Hot. Painting was Cool. Push and pull and get your groove on. It was a neo- utopia, the resurrection of painting in an anything goes orgy of materials. Those were the days. This spirit still visits me in the studio. My work has remained rooted in late modernist abstraction, and especially in the joy of experimentation with materials. Tape, mix, pour, splatter, scrape, stop, repeat. Colour is still hot. Colour is still cool. Shapes can dance. Shapes can speak. The politics of representation become sublimated in the language of paint, design, and craft.

PROJECT STATEMENT This painting is one of a series of paintings I produced in early 2022 to explore the possibilities of layering paint splattered surfaces and transparencies. The image is informed by my interest in contemporary and organic architecture. The title suggests the beginning of a mantra for meditation. Imagine yourself floating through a red-orange space in a convoluted geodesic glass structure...

~ Elizabeth Barnes

Elizabeth Barnes is an artist and educator and has lived and worked in Vancouver, BC since 2004. She received her BFA in 1991 from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and her MFA in 1993 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her work has been exhibited in public, private, and commercial galleries throughout the United States and Canada.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $650

HELENA WADSLEY TRAGIC POET 2022 12 x 15” http://helenawadsley.com https://www.instagram.com/helenawadsley ARTIST BIO

PROJECT STATEMENT Tragic Poet is from my ongoing series Pillow Talk, which is comprised of mixed media works that combine hand dyed and stained fabrics, knitting, encaustic, and paint. Hybridity is the crux in breaking barriers in a post post- modern world whose visual language still depends on a modernist ethos. Bringing the formal qualities of abstract painting into textiles and their associated techniques creates a crossbreeding of intuition and savvy to pull at memory and the longing for creature comforts as well as intellectual stimulation and the adventure of experimentation. The repetitive gestures involved in knitting and sewing, I learned by observing my mother, provide solace during difficult times because of the way the processes invite the maker to go inward to find peace and enjoy solitude. I create these works in my search to understand what home means to me and where I might find it.

Helena Wadsley is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice involves textiles, drawing, painting, and video. Responding to the body as a site of feelings is the starting point to all her projects, whether based on research or intuitive processes. The body’s multifarious positioning as political and social loci as it travels across space and time is the primary site of research—how have our bodies been acted upon politically, and how we navigate the unspoken, language of our bodies’ reactions. Embracing the skills typically passed down through generations prompts a reconstruction of the definitions of inheritance, belonging, and identity. Her work considers knowledge systems such as science and literature to identify entrenched attitudes about gender that marginalize the ‘other’ while using craft techniques as a way of drawing traditional women’s labour into the vernacular of contemporary art. She has participated in residencies in Iceland, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Morocco, the Dominican Republic and the Yukon. Her work has been exhibited on five continents, and recently in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Orlando, the UK, Korea, Greece, and Canada. She has upcoming exhibitions in Athens and Vancouver this fall. She has been the recipient of Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $300

JENNIFER CHERNECKI PUT A POODLE ON IT 2020 16 x 16” Media: Oil on Panel https://www.jenniferchernecki.com/ https://www.instagram.com/main_street_poodle/ ARTIST BIO Jennifer is a Vancouver-based visual artist and curator who works primarily in drawing and oil painting. Her subjects, whether they be animals, humans or inanimate objects, always engage with the viewer, creating a sense of wonder and curiosity. Her works hold small secrets, hidden imagery and untold stories and leave the viewer with the feeling that there is much more to understand in these imaginary time-spaces. Jennifer is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and currently makes her home and studio in Vancouver’s eclectic Mount Pleasant neighborhood. She works as an artist in programs at the Burnaby Art Gallery as well as an Exhibit Preparator at the Burnaby Village Museum.

PROJECT STATEMENT Jennifer Chernecki has too many pets. She paints them because she can’t bear to leave them trapped in her head, but she is running out of space for them all! You could support her Adoption Agency by taking this loving poodle off her hands. Adoption Agency is a series of pet-based works that explore the idea of the micro-utopic impulse and small moments of perfection, as well as the ideas of ownership, commodity and animal welfare. It’s also well known and documented that images of cats and dogs and other furry friends are at the top of the commonly collected list. This project unabashedly leans all the way into that.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $150

KITTY BLANDY UNTITLED JOURNEY VI 2016 76 x 33cm https://www.kittyblandy.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kittyblandy ARTIST BIO

PROJECT STATEMENT “Untitled journey VI” is a framed drawing on paper from a series of works made over the past 8-10 years thematically titled migration/placement/displacement. At the beginning of the series the pieces depict one or two figures in isolation. Later in the project, and after the enormity of the refugee crisis in Syria and the Mediterranean in the mid twenty-teens became widespread, the figure becomes multiple. Group movement may not always be one of distress, and the sight of people moving on foot is ancient and timeless. Each figure as an individual becomes threaded together in a continuum, an allegory for some of the binaries of human existence; endurance and striving ambition, fatalism and curiosity. The migration/placement/ displacement series also addresses the metaphysical; who we are, where we are, what we are.

Blandy’s education in the arts began early in life through weekly visits to museums and galleries with her surgeon father, a keen amateur artist and historian. Having been raised in a medical family her exposure to the corporeality of others prompted a self-directed independent visual training under the guidance of established practitioners, exploring the body both as subject and object. This in turn led to a practice in drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and a broad grounding in Euro-American art history. Her work has been represented in the UK and Canada and is included in a number of collections, notably the Primary Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and is currently a Master of Liberal Arts post- graduate candidate at Simon Fraser University. Past awards include the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver Emerging Artist Award. Additionally she has served on the boards of several non-profit arts organizations. Her recent work is situated within current discourses including: the body as site of sensation and consciousness, how a body feels metaphysically, environmental and humanistic theology, and extinction.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $200

KATHERINE DUCLOS CALVING AND RETREAT 2022 24 x 30”

PROJECT STATEMENT

This piece was made with the leftover palette skins from recent self portraits. These peels are a record of a process. They are the tangible leftovers. The act of keeping them, sorting them and recontextualizing them into new work, is a form of documentation of the artist’s thought process and practice. She peels them off the palette and even the tiniest ones get saved. They all play a role. There are hundreds in this piece. Collectively, they have power, but even on their own, they offer a moment of contemplation. The title of the pieces, Calving and retreat, refers to the process of icebergs splitting and breaking, a natural process that has intensified due to climate change.

Media: acrylic on wood cradled panel https://www.katherineduclos.com/ https://www.instagram.com/katherine_duclos_rose ARTIST BIO Katherine Duclos (b. 1980, Massachusetts) received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2012 in Brooklyn, NY. She moved from New York City to Vancouver, BC in late 2017 with her family, where she maintains an active multi-media studio practice delving into concepts of motherhood, identity, neurodivergence, materiality, and more. Her work is a reflection of her engagement with her family, environment and her experience as a woman. She has exhibited her work across the US and Canada. She has worked as a teaching artist for organizations such as Studio in a School in New York City and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She welcomes studio visits, commissioned projects, and collaborations.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $250

KOSAR MOVAHEDI NIP SLIP 2022 3-3/4” X 5” (approximate for each pocket) Media: Sculpture (material: plaster) https://www.kosar.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/kmovii/ ARTIST BIO

PROJECT STATEMENT A pair of breast pockets made from plaster hold and hide desire, power and gender. Clothes are second skins that outline the space we occupy and pockets are the negotiation ground between the intimacy of our bodies and our public selves.

Kosar Movahedi is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores space and time in relation to visual perception. Current work revolves around the relationship of image and experience through photography, drawing, video, and sculpture. Movahedi’s work has resulted in exhibitions in Canada and Iran, and publications affiliated with Imperial College London, Water Initiative of South Asia, and Emily Carr University. She holds a BSc in Architecture from University of Tehran and is a current MFA candidate at the University of Victoria, BC.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $130

KOSAR MOVAHEDI BOBBY FLIRTS WITH THE IDEA 2022 3-3/4” X 5” (approximate for each pocket) Media: Sculpture (material: plaster) https://www.kosar.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/kmovii/ ARTIST BIO

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $130

LACEY JANE WILBURN DIET PAINTING #4 (AVERY) 2022 11 x 14” Media: Oil on paper, mounted on panel https://laceyjane.art/ https://www.instagram.com/laceyjaneart/ ARTIST BIO Lacey Jane Wilburn is a contemporary artist most notable for her paintings of portraits and interior space that undulate between gesture and realism with a raw authenticity. Originally from the Treaty 6 territory of Edmonton, Alberta, Wilburn studied Fine Art at the University of Grant MacEwan in Edmonton in 2009, she received her Bachelors of Fine Art from Concordia University in Montreal in 2016 after studying abroad at the l’Ecole d’Enseignement Supérieur d’art de Bordeaux, France, and most recently she obtained her Masters of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2022. Since 2009 she has participated in over 40 exhibitions across Canada and the US, and in 2010 she formed the street art duo LALA [Lacey And Layla Art] who have developed over 150 public mural interventions across Canada, France, Honduras, Uganda and Iceland. Now living in Vancouver, BC on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, Wilburn gratefully dedicates her time between painting, teaching and scuba diving.

PROJECT STATEMENT The “diet paintings” are a series I began developing in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, struggling as a portrait artist with a sincere lack of other friends, bodies and willing strangers to participate in my works. Soon after, I found an online group of international portrait artists seeking similar solutions who began sharing personal selfies as reference material to each other. These works then became my “diet paintings”, titled as such for the speedy, light, enjoyable and experimental opportunities in paint they provided, which I was creating alongside my more demanding thesis work. This work, “Avery” is number 4 out of 20, which I hope to grow into a small army of paintings sharing ambitious and artistic strangers from around the globe.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $300

LAURA KRICK LYNN LAGOON 2022 11 x 14”

PROJECT STATEMENT This piece is a painted collage of some of my experiences walking around Vancouver. I gathered images from my explorations: the ceiling through the window of a restaurant I passed by in Chinatown, the green waters of a pool on a Lynn Canyon hike, and the planks of a boardwalk at night, and painted from these images. I am in part inspired by the Situationist International who were interested in maps and structures of the city, and valued walking and exploration for their political potential. Their concept of psycho-geography or the study of the effects that cities can have on the emotions and behaviour of individuals, inspired me to think about the effects that aesthetics can have on our experiences of cities and the natural areas that surround them. Guy Debord spoke about the concept behind his derive or “the drift”, an exercise that involved moving through the city in groups, sometimes taking routes frequently traveled and other times deviating from conventional passages, as an attempt to “study a terrain or to emotionally disorientate oneself”. I often wander with no specific destination, just to study by looking and photographing, and also enjoy taking alternate routes to get to wherever I need to go. I collect images to remember my experiences of places and what they made me think or feel because I like to revisit them later. By combining them in the painting process, I create alternate, and sometimes disorienting spaces of the imagination.

Media: Acrylic on wood http://laurakrick.com/ https://www.instagram.com/krickla1 ARTIST BIO

Laura Krick is a visual artist working on the unceded Coast Salish lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). She received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto/Sheridan College and her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her paintings use photographs taken from walks as a starting point. These images are souvenirs of her experiences of exploration around Vancouver. She collages snippets of her surroundings together, recreating a kaleidoscopic sensory experience of patterns and colours. She combines abstract with figurative painting, architectural details with natural ones and hard edged grids and lines with gestural sweeps and strokes.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $200

LAURA ROSENGREN DIRECTOR 2021 24 x 30” Media: Oil on panel https://laurarosengren.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lauralrosengren ARTIST BIO My practice involves a mixed material approach to painting and considers how motherhood might enlarge and re-invigorate, rather than limit artistic practice. Much of my research these last few years has taken place at home, using the physical actions and constraints of this space to bring a new attention to how I make paintings. My practice is mapped by rapid calculations and measurements – the length of a TV show or nap, the space between meals and baths. I am concerned with how the realities of care-giving, such as constant interruptions, and diverted attention shape rhythms of making.

PROJECT STATEMENT “Director” has to do with the way we perform our ideas of gender, relationship and parenting in everyday actions and rituals. Transposing the performance and rituals of domestic labour into painting both highlights unseen work but also undermines painting’s legacy of masculinity with its heroic and solitary gestures.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $500

LINDA SUFFIDY RELIQUARY 03 2022 33.5 x 28.75” Media: Acrylic on sintra and frame https://suffidy.com/ https://www.instagram.com/linda_suffidy/ ARTIST BIO

PROJECT STATEMENT The magnolia is represented enmeshed in radiating waves, symbolizing the persistence of regeneration.

Contemplating the enormity of time fills me with awe. The vastness of the millennia is beyond our frame of reference. What existed in the world through the eons? What countless generations of life have come into being? Discovering a clue – such as an ancient fossil – is a source of wonder. This feeling drives my art practice. My current body of work explores the incredible longevity of nature. The ginkgo, fern, and magnolia are archetypes of persistence. They exist today in a similar form to their ancestors who lived over a hundred million years ago. These plants are presented as timeless icons: simultaneously ancient fossils, contemporary objects, and artifacts for the future. They are reliquaries containing precious potential for continuation. These plants demonstrate that given a chance, nature will ultimately survive. My technique has grown out of experimentation with painting and printmaking. The work is hung on walls and is part painting and part sculpture. Found frames are fitted with boards. I carve and incise the boards to create a dimensional surface for painting. Each work contains an area of focus that is richly detailed, where layering is employed as a metaphor for time.

LIVE AUCTION OPENING BID = $500

MARISSA SCHIESSER EVERLASTING BOUQUET 2022 12 x 16” Media: mixed media collage on bamboo paper https://marissacreativearts.com/ https://www.instagram.com/marissacreativearts/ ARTIST BIO My work is a visual invitation to get lost in a colourful, peaceful world sprinkled with bits of surprise. The intention behind my work is to inspire you to embrace art, texture and colour in your home and life. In my process, I find flow and ease in repeated mark- making with paint or thread, snipping of cloth or paper, and moving pieces about into a composition. I use watercolour, gouache, ink, natural dyes, textiles and found/re-purposed material to create playful, intricate pieces. My colour palette is shaped by the luscious flora, expansive mountains and vast ocean of the west coast and Kootenay regions. My grandmother’s stewardship of the Columbia Valley Wetlands influences me to think about the materials I use and the waste I produce. My practice increasingly considers the sustainability of the source, processing, and waste of materials. I live and create on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, Squamish, Tsleil- Waututh and Musqueam Nations who have cared for these lands since time immemorial. I am grateful to be immersed in the nature of this land and continue to listen, learn and take action for its conservation.

PROJECT STATEMENT This piece came about as a culmination of my life in fashion design and my desire to be surrounded by colourful, aromatic flowers. I cut petal-inspired shapes from fashion images where the folds of fabric imitate the curves of flower petals. Rich, luxurious textile prints, textures and sparkles create imaginative flowers. These manufactured flowers mesh with images of real flowers to create an everlasting bouquet. The bouquet bursts with the liveliness and joy of blooming flowers and brings that energy into a lasting piece of artwork. I combine images of nature in ways they are not seen in nature. My intent is to provide a reminder that nature is only here to inspire us as long as we respect and care for it. We are nothing without our natural habitat.

SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $220

MEGS GATUS I AM PROUD 2022 24 x 16” (framed) Media: Photography

PROJECT STATEMENT This piece was part of the collection exhibited at Roundhouse Community Center Exhibition Hall - during the 2019 Outsider Artist Festival. This image was done by using intentional camera movement, subject the leaves. The medium is digital photography.

https://megsphotography.myportfolio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/photoartistmegs/ ARTIST BIO Megs is a Vancouver based photographer. Her camera acts like her paintbrush using her lens to capture colors, lights and space to make artistic and creative images. Her creative images are done by using intentional camera movement combined with multi-exposure techniques. Her work is characterized by its organic colors and calming painterly style. Megs explores different hand camera movements to achieve the desired lines, shapes, and patterns in each abstract piece. Armed with her camera, she feels boundless in her creative spirit. For Megs, a blurry photograph flows a raw artistic expression.

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MENGYA ZHAO EMOTIONAL BLOOMING 2022

PROJECT STATEMENT Emotion is like the spring season. It has various

explanations. When you walk in a garden in springtime, you see blue, purple, and yellow; you see orange. A Garden is a metaphor for emotion, sad blue, blast purple, exciting yellow, and fresh orange. Oh, I need an orange now.

14 x 14 x 16 cm Media: Ceramic https://mengyazhao.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mengyazhaoo/ ARTIST BIO

Mengya Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on illustration, graphic design, drawing, photography, ceramics, and printmaking. She also participates in several public art projects, accomplished a mural painting in the 2017 Vancouver Mural Festival, and currently collaborates with several Asian Canadian women artists doing a mural project in Chinatown, Vancouver.

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MENGYA ZHAO 21ST CENTURY SANCAI 2022 14 x 9 x 4 cm Media: Ceramic https://mengyazhao.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mengyazhaoo/ ARTIST BIO

PROJECT STATEMENT Sancai glaze is a classic glaze colour combination which mainly used in Tang Dynasty. Instead of using green, yellow, and brown colours, I used blue-green, brown and metal glaze to keep it contemporary. In this case, it reflects our time in the concrete jungle and the disconnection from land and soil.

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MENGYA ZHAO SOMETIMES I FLY, I GO FOR A WALK WHEN I AM TIRED 2021 14 x 8 x 13 cm Media: Ceramic https://mengyazhao.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mengyazhaoo/ ARTIST BIO Mengya Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on illustration, graphic design, drawing, photography, ceramics, and printmaking. She also participates in several public art projects, accomplished a mural painting in the 2017 Vancouver Mural Festival, and currently collaborates with several Asian Canadian women artists doing a mural project in Chinatown, Vancouver.

PROJECT STATEMENT I imagine a creature that can both fly and walk. In this work, fly represents a dream or ideal life, and walk means to be reality. It is okay to dream you are in a better condition even if you face a struggle.

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NICHOLAS DEMERS FANCY HANDKERCHIEF 2021 24 x 24” Media: Mixed-media, wall-hanging sculpture. https://www.instagram.com/a.creative.nicholas/ ARTIST BIO Nicholas Demers was introduced to Art Therapy after the loss of his mother at age 7. It became a tool he used to navigate through the various traumas of living as a queer kid in the early eighties.

PROJECT STATEMENT We have been fed the idea since birth that our genders have assigned and appropriate likes and dislikes. Pink vs. Blue, Trucks vs. Ponies, She-Ra vs. He-Man. Demers recalls, “I remember being devastated every time I went to the dentist. We got Styrofoam airplanes after our visit ‘cause we were boys. Right next to the jar of ugly paper plane packages, was a dish of sparkly and colourful plastic costume rings of which I wasn’t allowed to pick from. This piece is a result of a lifetime full of these moments.”

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SARA FARIDAMIN FREE-SPIRITED BARGE 2022 18 x 12” (+ frame) Media: Photography https://www.sarafaridamin.com/ https://www.instagram.com/sarafaridamin/ ARTIST BIO Sara Faridamin is a visual artist, concentrating on the medium of photography. She has her academic and practical background in photography, visual communication, urban sociology and fine arts. She was born in Tehran, Iran and is based in Vancouver, Canada. She is interested in psychogeography, memory of place and exploring the concept of rhythm in the everyday life of cities. Her photographs reflect ideas about time and temporality. She focuses on a particular location over a long period of time, in order to get a thorough understanding of space as a container of time and place.

PROJECT STATEMENT Free-spirited Barge is a photographic documentation of the barge that was washed onto the Sunset beach, Vancouver in Nov 2021.

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SARA KOUEDI LOOK UP 2019-2022 24 x 18” each Media: Photography (diptych) on stretched canvas https://www.instagram.com/skouedi/ ARTIST BIO Sara Kouedi is an Egyptian/Canadian interior designer with an educational background in architecture, which had a huge influence of combining her professional education with her photography passion. Sara started photography out of a passion to give people a new perspective of seeing things they thought can only be seen from a single angle. She wanted to show them how one simple element, can be seen in so many different ways. Currently based in the beautiful Vancouver, which helps her sustain this passion with it’s various elements, from nature, to wilderness, to urban structures.

PROJECT STATEMENT “Less is more” a statement used to express the view that a minimalist approach to artistic or aesthetic matters is more effective. We tend to miss out on many small details around us that get lost within the buzz of life , always on the go and no time to pause and experience our surroundings. Through her “Look up” series, Sara focused on the minimal abstract lines that surround us within the architectural elements in the urban city skyline. She transforms them into frozen frames that reflect the warm tones of the golden hour bouncing off the harsh city surfaces. The images become a graceful, still, moment in time.

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SARA KORZEC BASEMENT SUMMER DREAMS 2016

PROJECT STATEMENT This diptych is a joke. Conscious dreaming joke. I have lived in a basement suite in the Lower Mainland for a few years. And even though luxury has never been appealing to me, I sometimes made up those funny depictions in my head of people in their pools up, above the ground level, above the basement. But this joke is also on me, because even though luxury is not appealing to me, sometimes I genuinely wished I could just float in the pool.

16 x 20” each - diptych (framed) Media: mixed media on paper https://sarakorzec.wordpress.com/ https://www.instagram.com/slightly.neurotic/ ARTIST BIO Sara Korzec is a Langley-based artist and a designer working with various new and traditional media, experimental architecture and sustainable design. She holds a M.Arch. from Cracow University of Technology and M.F.A. from Academy of Fine Arts, both in Krakow, PL in Intermedia Department. She divides her artistic practice into four personas/ identities/brands; each one is responsible for a slightly different direction: Imposter, Sigma, Prima, Fo Kowalsky. Imposter derives from her architectural background, concentrates on installations and experiments with space, usually understood intimately. Sigma creates and researches images (new and mixed media, paintings, objects) inspired by symbols and uncertainty of life. Fo Kowalsky captures and edits poetic photographs. Prima researches silenced mechanisms of the body through movement, voice and breath. Although recently they start to blend back together, it seems. In all works respect to Mother Earth is crucial, thus reclaimed or recyclable materials are often used.

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SHANNON PAWLIW UNDULANT 2021 20 x 20” Media: mixed media on wood cradled panel https://shannonpawliw.com/ https://www.instagram.com/shannonpawliw/ ARTIST BIO Shannon Pawliw (b. 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) works in painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Her work is colourful, immersive, and bold to the point of being cartoonish. Both the painted and 3D work is rooted in organic forms and gesture.

PROJECT STATEMENT Pawliw works in exploratory series that are undertaken with the explicit intent of creating fantasy-based objects built around ideas, practices, and concepts that fascinate her. These ideas and concepts are as diverse as nostalgia, memory, family, loss, and microbes. They tend to involve an immersive (and often obsessive) years-long study of the subject. But ultimately, her work is firmly rooted in optimism and naïveté.

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SHANNON PAWLIW FUGITIVE 2021 20 x 20” Media: mixed media on wood cradled panel https://shannonpawliw.com/ https://www.instagram.com/shannonpawliw/ ARTIST BIO Shannon Pawliw (b. 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) works in painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Her work is colourful, immersive, and bold to the point of being cartoonish. Both the painted and 3D work is rooted in organic forms and gesture.

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SHANNON PAWLIW DALLY 2021 20 x 20” Media: mixed media on wood cradled panel https://shannonpawliw.com/ https://www.instagram.com/shannonpawliw/ ARTIST BIO Shannon Pawliw (b. 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) works in painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Her work is colourful, immersive, and bold to the point of being cartoonish. Both the painted and 3D work is rooted in organic forms and gesture.

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SHIRLEY WIEBE STUDIO ACCOMPLICE [DIPTYCH] 2021 40 x 20” Media: tin, staples, mixed media, skill saw cuts on cradled panel https://www.shirleywiebe.com/ https://www.instagram.com/shirley_wiebe ARTIST BIO Shirley Wiebe is a self-taught artist based in Vancouver Canada. As someone from a prairie farming community and now based in a large urban center, Wiebe interprets her surroundings through this lens of contrast, connection and culture as she excavates narratives of human endeavour, public and private. With a particular interest in site-specific and project- based work, Wiebe’s concepts develop through investigation of materials, history and place. Often using what is at hand or gathered through research, substances are teased apart and re-imagined; corrugated plastic, mesh screening, industrial fragments and discarded objects undergo permutations that both utilize and deviate from their intended purpose. Her drawing, photography, sculpture and installation work explore relationships between the built environment and physical geography. Wiebe examines how structures, objects and materials have agency to convey history and meaning; to spark personal and collective memory. Her compositions bear traces of small incremental actions and intuitive leaps, which push the constituent elements beyond their common usage and form. Consequently, her work is both familiar and strange.

PROJECT STATEMENT Studio Accomplice is a self-coined phrase that describes how the artists’ studio can influence production. I have experienced a number of working environments including a garage, basement, front porch, spare bedroom, makeshift tent and several actual studio spaces. Aside from unique architectural features, each one has become a silent partner and companion to breakthroughs, dry spells, successes, frustrations, and numerous hours of solitary making. My belief is that a studio has the agency to inspire and inform, if invited. This diptych represents a collaboration with influences of my current studio space. Its concrete floor contains a series of cut patterns that form a visual greeting as I come and go. They correspond to skill saw cuts that were made to access underground pipes at some point in the past. I chose to mimic the patterns by tracing and then duplicating the cuts into these wood panels. At first glance the slices appear as black lines on the surface and this ambiguity appeals to me. The industrial tin sheeting was salvaged from Boeing Surplus. Repetitive stapling, erratic hand drawn sound waves and swirl patterns depict the creative energy and music jam circles that my studio contain. Studio Accomplice pays tribute to lesser noticed visible codes of ‘work’ and to the significance of physical gestures that support our day to day lives. Human hands continue to build the city every day.

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